Consultores – Mistic Paths

Professor José Manuel Anes

Goncalonunesrodrigues — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 17:15:21 +0000

José Manuel Morais Anes, born in Lisbon in 1944.

He made the compulsory Military Service, as Military Officer, from 1967 to 1970, and was mobilized to Angola from October 1968 to October 1970, where he was Psychological Action Officer in the Post Office Detachment and then in the 5th. RMA Headquarters – Military Region of Angola, responsible for the “Jornal da RMA”. It is since his demobilization, Lieutenant Militian on availability.

A researcher of spirituality and religiosity (from old to new, from peaceful to violent, from exoteric to esoteric), he has been studying Quinta da Regaleira since 1989, and has begun to publish various articles and books on the work of Carvalho Monteiro and Luigi Manini, 1990-91. He has been one of the greatest disseminators of Regaleira, particularly in its symbolic, mythical and initiatory dimension.

He is the author and co-author of about 30 books and articles in the field of alternative spiritualities and religiosities, including “Hermetic Re-creations I and II” (1996, 1997) – “Fernando Pessoa and the Esoteric Worlds” (3rd Ed. 2006), “Another look – the esoteric face of Portuguese culture (2006),” “The initiatory gardens of Quinta da Regaleira (2007), “Alchemy, Contemporary Alchemists and New Religious Movements” (2009) – summary of his PhD thesis – “Regaleira” (1st Ed. 2004, 2nd Ed. , ” Symbolic Guide of the Quinta da Regaleira.

From 1995 to 2000 Grão-Prior and G.M. Nacional of the Great Independent Priory of Lusitania of the Order of C.B.C.S. – Rectified Scottish Rite or Regime and then, from 2001 to 2004, Grand Master of GLLP / GLRP, where he founded in 1990/1 Loja Quinto Império and later moved to Loja Teixeira de Pascoaes. It has several Decorations, Orders and Degrees of various Rites and Regimes, national and foreign. He is currently an active member of the English Lodges and Chapters: UGLE Internet Lodge, Lancaster Chapter, Rose & Lilly Lodge by Mark Master Mason & Royal Ark Mariner and Oxford Council of the Royal and Selected Masters).

He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, respectively in 1973 and 1975. He was a research collaborator at the Chemistry-Physics and Radiochemistry Center of the (former) Instituto de Alta Cultura, from 1973 to 1976 and had a scholarship from the Spanish Government for a Postgraduate in Madrid in 1977/78, the Faculty of Sciences of the Complutense University and the Institute of Chemistry-Physics Rocasolano “of the” Higher Institute of Scientific Research ” .

He was assistant of the Chair of Biomathematics at the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon (Santa Maria Hospital) in 1976/77, having received a scholarship in 1977/78 for the aforementioned postgraduate studies.

From 1978 to 1997, she was a Senior Criminal Examiner at the Judicial Police Scientific Police Laboratory. She trained in the Israeli National Police Laboratory in Jerusalem in 1986 and was present at various stages and congresses in the area of Scientific Police ( Trace Analysis and Explosive Analysis) in Israel, Germany, France and England. He was Coordinator of two Committees of Experts of the Assembly of the Republic, on the “Camarate Case”. He introduced in the LPC / PJ the X-ray Microanalysis and the Scanning Electron Microscope.

He was a guest assistant at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities from 1986/7 to 2004/5 and taught Mathematics Chairs for Social and Human Sciences, Statistics and Quantitative Methods in the Departments of Anthropology, Political Science and International Relations and History.

He has also taught, in recent years, the Chair of Anthropology of Religion in the Department of Anthropology of that Faculty.

He is a member of the “European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism” (chaired by Prof. Wouter Hanegraaff and Antoine Faivre), presented a paper (related to his PhD work) and moderated one of the tables (on religion in Central Asia) at the International Congress on New Religious Movements and Alternative Spiritualities (NMR / EA) at the London School of Economics, an organization of CESNUR (led by Dr. Massimo Introvigne) and INFORM (chaired by Prof. Eileen Barker).

He also presented a communication and moderated a table at the CESNUR International Congress “Changing Gods: between religion and everyday life” in Torino (9-11 September 2010) at the Faculty of Sociology of the local University.

He received his Doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology (in the area of Anthropology of Religion and New Religious Movements) at the FCSH / UNL in April 2009, having been unanimously approved and obtained from the Jury the classification of Very Good with Distinction and Praise. In June 2009 he held a conference on the topic of his PhD thesis at the Bucharest People’s University.

He has organized international colloquiums on the Esotericism of Fernando Pessoa and his relations with Aleister Crowley in C.M. Cascais (June 2000) and Casa Fernando Pessoa (April 2009).

He is the President of the Board of Directors (and co-founder, in 2005) of the OSCOT – Observatory for Security, Organized Crime and Terrorism, after having been Vice-President, Executive Secretary and member of its Advisory Board.

Since its founding in 2006, he has been Director of the quarterly magazine “Security and Defense”, having been a member of the Organizing Committee and the Scientific Committee of “1º. National Congress of Security and Defense “that took place in Lisbon on June 24 and 25, 2010.

He has also been a professor over the years of, among others, courses at the Center for Judicial Studies, the Institute of Legal Medicine, the Institute of Sociology and Ethnology of Religions (FCSH / UNL), the National Culture Center, Casa Fernando Pessoa , in the Course of Promotion to Senior Officials of the GNR (at the IESM), at the Rectory of the University of Lisbon and in the Postgraduate and Master’s Courses in “Advanced Studies in Law and Security” at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

He is Assistant Professor of the Lusíada University of Lisbon where he teaches the chairs of Criminal and Terrorism Organizations in the Degree in Security Policies.

He is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Higher Institute of Health Sciences “Egas Moniz” (Monte da Caparica), where he teaches and is chair of “Scene II Crime” Chair of the Degree in Forensic and Criminal Sciences. He is a member of the Scientific and Pedagogical Councils of this same Degree and of the Ethics Committee of the same Institute.

He is co-author of the book “The Webs of Terror” (Aeschylus, 2006) and five articles on Religious Violence and Terrorism published in the 2007 Janus Yearbook (UAL / Public) on Religion and Politics.

He is also the author of two articles on Jihadism and Salafism published in the magazine “Security and Defense”, and presented Communications on these topics in Colloquia organized by the Association of Commanders, the League of Combatants, the Society of Geography (Military Sciences Section) and Association of National Defense Course Auditors. He regularly participates as an occasional commentator in various media (newspapers, magazines, radio and TV) on terrorism, organized and violent and serious crime, scientific police and internal security.

He was awarded the silver medal of the C.M. Sintra for the initiative of asking the IPPAR to classify that Quinta as a “property of public interest”.

In June 2016, he was part of the jury of the Master’s thesis that would give rise to this project, at the European University of Lisbon, within the scope of the Master’s degree in Digital Marketing, in which lay the foundations of this online mystic tourism platform in Portugal, MysticPaths.

Filipa Melo

Goncalonunesrodrigues — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 14:25:34 +0000

Since 1990, as a journalist specialized in the area of Culture / Literature, she has worked as a reporter (Visão, Espresso, Grande Reportagem, Ler, JL, O Independente, Escrita em Dia / SIC), editor , East / SIC News, Magazine and Books / RTP2), critic and commentator (Acontece and Jornal2, RTP2) and consultant (Câmara Clara, RTP2). He was awarded the National Sampaio Bruno Culture Prize in 1996.

In 2006, she created the LPC (Contemporary Portuguese Literature) Reading Community, dedicated to contemporary Portuguese literature, where more than 60 Portuguese authors spent as guests. In 2011, she signed the authorship, edition and presentation of the program “Nós e os Clássicos”, screened by SIC Notícias.

In 2015, she signed the new editorial concept and directed the magazine EPICUR. Since 2004, she has created and guided several cycles of literature dissemination or active citizen participation.

Nowadays, she has signed literary criticism in the newspapers Sol and “i” and in the magazine Ler, collaborates with several other publications and directs formations in literary creative writing.

Since 2017, she coordinates and ministers the first Portuguese post-graduation in Escrita de Ficção, at the Lusófona University, in Lisbon.

Her first novel, This Is My Body (Themes and Debates / Sextant), dates from 2001 and has been published in Spain, France, Italy, Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and Brazil. Her short stories are published in several Portuguese and international publications and anthologies.

In 2015, she published the story book The Last Sailors (ed. Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation). In 2017, she published the non-fiction book Sentimental Dictionary of Adultery (Quetzal).

Professor Manuel J. Gandra

Goncalonunesrodrigues — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:40:36 +0000

Born in Lisbon, October 27, 1953.

Graduate in Philosophy, Faculty of Arts of the Classical University of Lisbon (1979). Researcher specialized in several areas of knowledge, such as: History and Geography Mítica de Portugal, Hermetic Philosophy, Iconology of Portuguese Art, Emblematic and Mafrenses Culture and History. He taught in the Secondary and High School, as well as in the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon.

He was Coordinator of the Cultural Services of the Municipality of Mafra (between 1989 and 2003), Director of the Documentation and Information Center of Local History of the Municipality of Mafra (between 2006 and 2010) and Scientific Director of the Library António Quadros – IADE-U ( between 2000 and 2016). He was the Commissioner of several exhibitions and exhibitions, namely the Mafra – do Regicide Exhibition on October 5, destined for the National Palace of Mafra and integrated in the official Commemorations of the Centenary of the Implantation of the Republic (2010). Currently, he is a Professor at IADE-U, Institute of Art, Design and Business – University, as well as collaborator of UNIDCOM (idem) and CLEPUL (Faculty of Arts of the Universidade Clássica de Lisboa).

He directs the Ernesto Soares Center of Iconography and Symbolism, which he founded in 1997. He is a frequent guest of several series of the History Channel. Member of the Advisory Council of the periodicals Nova-Águia (Portugal) and director of the scientific journal Mito, Symbol and Tradition. He has collaborated scattered in several periodicals, emphasizing: Cultural Bulletin of Mafra, Region Saloia, Age of the Image, New Eagle, Cadernos of the Tradition – History and Identity of the People of Portuguese Language (1ª, 2ª and 3ª series); Bulletin of the Ernesto Soares Center of Iconography and Symbolic, etc.

He is the author of a vast bibliography, which stands out:

Bibliografia crítica das fontes e estudos respeitantes ao Hermetismo em Portugal (1993); Apocalipse de Esdras nas letras e na arte portuguesas (1994); Icones Symbolicae – contributo para o conhecimento da recepção e difusão da Cultura Simbólica em Portugal e sua presença na Biblioteca do Palácio Nacional de Mafra (1996); Cheiros, Sabores e Comeres regionais de Mafra: tradição e modernidade (1998); Joaquim de Fiore, Joaquimismo e Esperança Sebástica (1999); A Cerâmica tradicional de Mafra (1999); Os Templários na Literatura (2000); Colecção Maçónica Pisani Burnay (2000); A Cristofania de Ourique: mito e profecia (2002); O Monumento de Mafra de A a Z – v. 1 (2002); Dicionário do Milénio Lusíada – v. 1 (2003); A Biblioteca do Palácio Nacional de Mafra (2003); Cartas de Jogar e Tarot em Portugal (2004); Para um elenco das edições impressas das Trovas do Bandarra, in Newsletter do Centro Ernesto Soares de Iconografia e Simbólica, n. 17 (Mar. 2004); Para um elenco dos comentários impressos das Trovas do Bandarra, in Newsletter do Centro Ernesto Soares de Iconografia e Simbólica, n. 18 (Mar. 2004); Bandarra na Poética Portuguesa – séc. XVII a XX (2005); Disparates sentenciosos, do Mestiço de Malaca (2005); Emblemas e Leitura da Imagem Simbólica no Palácio Nacional de Mafra (2005); O Monumento de Mafra visto por estrangeiros – 1716-1908 (2005); O Projecto Templário e o Evangelho Português (2006); O Monumento de Mafra de A a Z – v. 2 (2006); Trovas ou Disparates do Pretinho do Japão (2007); Processo Inquisitorial de Gonçalo Anes Bandarra, sapateiro da Vila de Trancoso, ano de 1541 (2007); A Jerusalém Celeste como paradigma dos Impérios ou Teatros do Divino (2007); Do Desejado ao Encoberto: roteiro de uma exposição virtual (2007); Colectânea das principais censuras e interditos visando os Impérios do Divino Espírito Santo (2007); O Anjo Custódio de Portugal (2007); Cesare Ripa na Biblioteca do Palácio Nacional de Mafra e ecos da sua Iconologia (Roma, 1603) nas Artes em Portugal (2007); Portugal Sobrenatural – v. 1 (2007); Da Face Oculta do Rosto da Europa – 2ª ed. revista e ampliada (2009); Astrologia em Portugal: dicionário histórico-filosófico (2010); Colecção Portuguesa I e II da Biblioteca do Congresso – subsídios para a sua história (2012); Sebástica manuscrita na Biblioteca do Congresso (2012); Templarismo manuscrito na Biblioteca do Congresso (2012); A Quinta da Regaleira – legado Sebástico-Templarista de António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro (2012); Colecção Portuguesa I e II da Biblioteca do Congresso – livros maçónicos (2012); O Império do Divino Espírito Santo em Sintra e Cascais (2012); Iconografia e Iconologia: estudos, notas e fontes de cultura visionária (2012); Livro das Profecias de Cristóbal Colón (2013); Amuletos da Tradição Luso-Afro-Brasileira (2013); Florilégio de Tradições do Concelho de Mafra (2013); O Anjo da Saudade: da Hierarquia Celeste e do Custódio de Portugal (2013); O Projecto Templário e o Evangelho Português (2013), 2ª ed. revista e ampliada; Fernando Pessoa: Hermetismo, Iniciação, Heteronímia (2013); Mafra, do ocaso da Monarquia, ao advento da República(2013); Itinerários da Monarquia Constitucional em Mafra (2013); Hagiografia de D. Sebastião: de Desejado a Encoberto (2014); Cátaros para um Languedoque Português (2014); António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro: imaginário e legado (2014); Palácio Quintela: Iconologia do Programa Pictórico (2014); As Ilhas Míticas do Imaginário Luso: fontes e iconografia(2014); Os Templários na Literatura de Língua Portuguesa (2014); A freguesia da Carvoeira (Mafra), de-lés-a-lés (2014); Instituições militares no Monumento de Mafra (2014); Estudos de Emblemática I. (2014); A Vila de Mafra, de-lés-a-lés: história e evolução urbana (2014); Promontório Sagrado: Finisterra e Fim do Mundo (2015); Guia Templário de Portugal – v. 1 (2015); Fernando Pessoa: Hermetismo e Iniciação (2015); Festa dos Tabuleiros – Tomar (2015); Guia Templário de Portugal: Almourol – Cardiga (2015); Guia Templário de Portugal – Literatura Portuguesa (2015); 5 de Outubro de 1910 – O Embarque da Família Real na Ericeira (2015); Guia Templário de Portugal: Tomar (2015); Emblemata – estudos 1 (2016); Arte da Memória e Hermética na Biblioteca do Palácio Nacional de Mafra (2016); São Julião (Carvoeira, Mafra) e Mateus Álvares, Falso D. Sebastião da Ericeira ( 2016); A Vila de Mafra de lés-a-lés: Quem é quem (2016); Guia Templário de Portugal – Convento de Cristo (2016); Palácio Nacional de Mafra: Guia (2016); Guia Templário de Portugal: a Demanda das Ilhas Míticas (2016); Dicionário do Milénio Lusíada – v. 1 (2017); Gliptografia Lusitânica: Marcas e Siglas Lapidares (2017); Poética Sebástica (século XX) (2017); Ordens Luso-Brasileiras e suas insígnias (2017); O Império do Divino na Amazónia (2017); S. Julião (Carvoeira) e o Falso D. Sebastião da Ericeira (2017); O Monumento de Mafra de A a Z – v. 1 (2017); O Monumento de Mafra de A a Z – v. 2 (2017); Noese e Técnica do Símbolo: A Morte e os últimos fins do Homem (2017); A Atlântida: Iconologia da Pré-história de Portugal (2017); Profética Lusíada: quatro idades, joaquimismo, quinto império (2018); Geomância, ou da Natureza Animada em Portugal (2018); Alquimia e seus Adeptos em Portugal – v. 1 (2018); etc.

Coronel Américo Henriques

Goncalonunesrodrigues — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:07:16 +0000

*Here with HRH Dom Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, claimant to the Portuguese throne, as the head of the House of Braganza.

Colonel Américo Henriques was Professor at the Institute and High Military Studies; commanded Troops at the Infantry Practice School and Infantry Regiment n. 15 in Tomar, at which time the Convent of Christ aroused its greatest dedication and study.

He was Chief of Staff of the Operational Command of the Azores, Military Attaché of Portugal in Washington and Information Officer at the headquarters of the NATO in Brussels.

He served a Service Commission in the Commandos Battalion of Mozambique during the Overseas War in 1972 – 1973, and this was the highest point of his Military career.

He was awarded with several National and Foreign decorations, of them being highlighted the Gold Medal of Distinguished Services and the Degree of Commander of the Military Order of Santiago of the Sword imposed by The President of the Portuguese Republic on 10 Jun 11.

Infantry Colonel, “Command” in the Retirement situation, was born in Lisbon on May 25, 1946 and graduated from the Military Academy in 1970, being promoted to Ensign Infantry in that year.

He is qualified with the Course of Staff of the Portuguese Armies and the United Kingdom.

In his life dedicated to the study and teaching of Military History, he has guided national and international visits to the battlefields of Aljubarrota, Buçaco, Roliça, Vimeiro and Montes Claros, as well as the fortresses of Tomar and Almeida.

Among the various themes that have been addressed in the History of Portugal, highlights the Crisis of 1383-1385, fundamentally related to the battles of Atoleiros and Aljubarrota, whose battlefields have given several conferences and guided tours, both private and official, extending these visits to the Batalha Monastery, where he talks about the Avis Dynasty, the Chapel of the Founder and the Pantheon of that Dynasty until the Infante D. Afonso, son of King João II. Also visit the Imperfect Chapels, where the King is buried. Duarte.

Within the History of Portugal, another theme that has been dedicated is the War of the Acclamation, about which he has lectured in Portugal and Spain, and his speech at the official ceremonies on 1 December in Lisbon. lectures on this topic, extended to the Cause of Independence of Portugal, delivered at the Superior School of War in Madrid, and intended for students of the Course of General Officers of the Spanish Army. On this theme, we highlight the guided visit to the battlefield of Montes Claros.

He has also dedicated his attention to the theme related to the Period of the First and Second Liberalisms.

Thus, in visits and conferences, the theme has been addressed in the Institute of Military Studies, the Portuguese Committee on Military History, the Royal Tauromáquico Club, Turf Club, Viana do Castelo and Mafra, and this study was extended with visits guided to the battlefield of Asseiceira, and to the Church of Santo André de Frades, village of Póvoa de Lanhoso, where began the Revolution of Maria da Fonte.

The Military Orders of the Poor Knights of Our Lord Jesus Christ from the Temple of Solomon, universally known as the Templars, and the Templars, are mentioned in a preliminary conference for the visit to the Convent of Christ and the Church of Santa Maria do Olival in Tomar. Poor Knights of Our Lord Jesus Christ, successor of that one and known like Order of Christ.

This visit, which has been carried out both nationally and internationally, officially or privately, consists of an afternoon visit to Santa Maria and the Convent, where a historical description of the two Orders is made, emphasizing its importance for the Monument.

And of a nocturnal visit to the Convent, where, and as much as possible, we try to “make the stones speak”, so that we enter into the mystery that, historically, always surrounded those Military Orders.

During the visit, we also try to address episodes of our history linked to that extraordinary Monument.

Traditionally, the visit to Almeida seeks to coincide with the celebrations of the siege and fall of the village during the third French invasion, and has as a high point the recreation of a battle of the Napoleonic period. Taking advantage of this visit, the author has guided a visit to the battlefield of Fuentes de Oñoro, scene of the last episode of the so-called French invasions of Portugal.